Hooda Faces a CBI Probe

After an Open story, the environment ministry—MoEF—has written to the Hooda government to register FIRs for a CBI probe of multiple forestry scams in Haryana.

After the Open story ‘Why is Hooda Afraid of the CBI?’, 25 February 2012, the environment ministry—MoEF—has written to the Hooda government to register FIRs for a CBI probe of multiple forestry scams in Haryana. Referring to Sanjiv Chaturvedi, the whistleblower who has been  persecuted for the past five years, the MoEF wrote: ‘It has been decided, with the approval of the competent authority, to assign the investigation into the allegations made by Sanjiv Chaturvedi… to the CBI.’ Two state forest ministers, officials in Haryana and at the Centre and CMO, no less, have so far brazened it out, defying inquiries. The state government will now have to file an FIR in three cases—construction of an illegal canal inside Saraswati wildlife sanctuary, development of a herbal park on private land in Fatehabad using government funds, and an afforestation scam in Jhajjar—and notify the Centre entrusting them to the CBI.

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